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An Evening of Readings, Performances, and Fun on Wednesday, March 13th at 6:00 PM at the W83 Loft at 150 West 83rd Street featuring members of our advisory council: Nicole Krauss, Stephen Dubner, and Reg E. Gaines
6:00 Cocktails & Light Fare
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Readings & Entertainment
Stephen Dubner
Stephen Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He is best-known for writing, along with the economist Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics (2005) and SuperFreakonomics (2009), which have sold more than 5 million copies in 35 languages. Dubner is also the author of Turbulent Souls/Chosing My Religion (1998), Confessions of a Hero Worshipper (2003), and the children's book The Boy with the Two Belly Buttons (2007). His journalism has appeared in The New York Times,The New Yorker, Time, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Crime Writing, and others.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen by The New Yorker for their "Twenty Under Forty" list. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.
Youth Impact
Writopia is running weekly free workshops at NYPL branches. These sessions require tremendous resources. Please come and help us raise the funds to bring our workshops, laptops, and instructors across the city to reach as many young writers as possible.
“A riveting, action-packed, hilarious, and deeply important party.”-- The UWS Times
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Stephen Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He is best-known for writing, along with the economist Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics (2005) and SuperFreakonomics (2009), which have sold more than 5 million copies in 35 languages. Dubner is also the author of Turbulent Souls/Chosing My Religion (1998), Confessions of a Hero Worshipper (2003), and the children's book The Boy with the Two Belly Buttons (2007). His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Crime Writing, and others.
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen by The New Yorker for their "Twenty Under Forty" list. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.